While trying to solve the mystery of his heart, Father Andrew has his hands full. It seems he’s made an enemy who has it in for him. And this enemy’s attacks are escalating. With the help of Officer Tate, Vincent, and others will Father Andrew be able to find the person behind the evil deeds inflicted on him before it’s too late?

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List of Books in chronological order

Go to the bottom of the blog for a list of all my books in chronological order, complete with synopses and heat index.

What do I write?

Let me start by stating what I do not write. Despite the fact that all but five of my books to date have been published by a company that specializes in M/M Romances, I definitely do not write romances. I think my books can better be characterized as mainstream gay fiction. There's always a love story, but not a romance in the usual sense of the word.-You won't find angst-ridden characters in my books who wallow in their feelings at every bump on the highway of life.-In my stories you will find strong characters who deal with life's problems pragmatically and often somewhat dispassionately—as in fact most people do in real life.-You will also find believable characters, characters who might even remind you of someone you know.

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0-Contains no sex. Sex is alluded to, but not described.1-Contains two or three brief sex scenes, as dictated by the story.2-Contains some sex.3-Heavy sexual content, as mandated by the story.

Bodies of Work (an Avondale story featuring George and Mike)Sexual content = 1

George Martin and Mike Foster have been best friends since childhood, but recent events have brought them even closer together: Mike has moved into George's house now that George's unfaithful boyfriend has been kicked out. It puts Mike in a pinch, because he's always loved George—maybe more than a best friend should. George doesn't suspect Mike's feelings, being wrapped up in his job as the youngest lieutenant and only out officer in the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and investigating a series of murders. But it will all come to a head when George is stalked by a psycho and Mike steps in front of a bullet meant for George. George then realizes there's much more to their relationship than he suspected.

Drag and Drop (an Avondale Story featuring George and Mike)-Sequel to Bodies of WorkSexual content = 0

The body of a fifty-year-old drag queen is found in the locked dressing room of a bar. As George delves into the subsequent murder investigation, he uncovers a dangerous trail of murdered drag queens and young gay men that intersects with another case involving porn films, torture, and worse. He struggles to make sense of the murders, but it's Mike who asks the question that leads to a break in the case.

Break and Enter (an Avondale Story featuring George and Mike)-Sequel to Drag and DropSexual content = 0

There have been a rash of break-ins in the area, and the homes targeted all seem to belong to older gay men. Then when the time finally comes for George and Mike to take their vacation, they pack up and head to their mountain cabin for two weeks—only to find a small boy living in their generator shed.

Robbie, who bonds with George right away, had witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, but that is just the beginning of the trouble. Alone in the world apart from a very ill maternal grandmother, Robbie stands the very real risk of becoming a ward of the state if George and Mike can't convince a bigoted judge to change his mind. Meanwhile, George still has a job to do: solve the mystery of the break-ins—and a murder—and track down who's responsible.

Sleuth, LLC: Birds of a Feather (an Avondale Story)Sexual content = 1

Quentin Quasar has found that being a telepath is a mixed bag: it's great when he's catching an unfaithful spouse or tracking down a thief, but it's horrible when his bedmate is thinking unflattering thoughts during sex. It's no wonder that instead of saying his prayers every night, Quentin sends tendrils of thought out into the world, looking for another telepath to ease the loneliness. Imagine his surprise when he finds one—and the young man needs help!

Nate Braddock was plenty panicked at being kidnapped by fanatic cult members who planned to "beat the devil" out of him. With Quentin's help, and then his partnership, Nate finds the courage to take a stand against his mother's religious intolerance and together they'll confront an uncomfortable truth: telepaths may not be devils, but not all of them are angels either. Quentin and Nate will need their combined gifts to tell the difference.

Telepathic private investigator Quentin Q. Quasar and his partner Nate Braddock are back. They accidentally stumble on a series of kidnapping/murders, and begin to investigate. Eventually, the kidnappers snatch a young man from an Interstate rest area, and Quentin and Nate hear his telepathic cry for help. Armed with that information, they contact their friend George Martin at the sheriff's office, and manage to catch the kidnappers before they've killed the victim. The intended victim was on his way to Orlando to join his boyfriend—also a telepath—who'd recently moved there to take a job.

Magic Fingers (an Avondale Story)Sexual content = 1

David Majors should be looking forward to a long and prosperous life: after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's attending college courtesy of Uncle Sam and riding the fast track to success. He's tall, fit, and good-looking, so shouldn't the world be his oyster? But underneath his clothes—and beneath the surface—David is a mess of scar tissue and insecurity.

Then he meets Kevin Boxer, another former Army Ranger. Their first night together, Kevin stares David's scars in the face and doesn't flinch, instead showering David with the passion and attention he craves but never imagined possible. Slowly but surely, Kevin helps David rebuild his confidence, and the two of them begin to build their life together. But their journey is far from over, and it turns out Kevin may need David to help him heal some scars of his own.

The Burdens of Truth (an Avondale Story)Sexual content = 0

Professor and secret government analyst Ian Sanderson's bad day gets worse when he arrives home one miserable November evening to find an apparently incriminating photograph in a FedEx envelope in his doorway, followed by increasingly threatening photographs over the next two or three weeks. It isn't just Ian being set up: his partner, Randy, a lieutenant colonel working on a top-secret Pentagon project, is also at risk. Someone obviously wants something, but what? And from whom?

Soon, a mysterious caller demands that Randy disclose information about the project he's been working on. When he refuses, Ian's and Randy's sons, David and Paul, are kidnapped from an Amtrak passenger train. Resourceful and intelligent, the boys manage to escape—only to find themselves lost and alone in a remote wilderness. With time running out, can Ian and Randy track down their blackmailers? Or will the man known only as The Broker claim another set of victims?

Love Turns the Page (an Avondale Story)Sexual content = 1

Tom Foster has his life planned out, and he's systematically pursuing his goals. At twenty-two, he's been organist and choirmaster at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd for three years, he's working on his doctoral thesis, and he's beginning a secondary career performing in concert. There is no room in his schedule for romance... until Noah Webster, a gorgeous green-eyed blond, walks into the church one evening to audition for the choir.

What starts as an arrangement of convenience—Tom's usual page turner is unavailable, and Noah agrees to do the job—soon turns into a fast friendship. Then Noah, who is saddled with an obnoxious roommate, rents the spare bedroom in Tom's house, and ultimately the two men become lovers and partners in life. But before they can ride off into the sunset together, they must face one major obstacle: Noah's violent, homophobic Southern Baptist father.

Tom Foster and Noah Webster have been together for three years. In that time, Tom has completed his doctorate, Noah has begun working on his master's, and both men have come into their own as performers. Suddenly international recognition becomes a reality instead of a dream. They even perform at the dedication of a concert hall at the University of Aragoni.

But it's not all smooth sailing. They still have to battle Noah's Uncle Joe over the division of property he owned with Noah's late father. Tom's father has been distant ever since Tom chose music over law school. And Noah's mother's attitude toward his relationship with Tom leaves something to be desired. With their busy performance schedules, will Tom and Noah be able to make peace with their parents and get a fair deal?

Curiosity Satisfied (an Avondale Story)Sexual content = 1

Mitch Edwards has it made: at twenty-nine, he's just been named partner at one of the largest law firms in the city and he's just bought his first house. But he has the feeling something is missing, and he's pretty sure he knows what it is. So when the woman he's been dating goes out of town for three weeks, he seizes the opportunity and summons the courage to visit a gay bar.

He takes Rion Murphy home, and they hit it off so well that after a few weeks of exploration on Mitch's part, they decide to make the arrangement more permanent. But then Mitch's past catches up with him, and it's up to Rion to help him cope.

The Tenor Tuner (an Avondale Story)Sexual content = 1

Josh Carpenter is just a few weeks from graduation, and he's got everything going for him. He has a growing reputation as a piano tuner, and he plans to pursue a master's degree in the fall. If his best friend, Norm, is to be believed, he's handsome enough to have his pick of gay men. He's also been blind since birth.

When Norm suggests they take in some sun at the beach, Josh has no idea their lives are about to change for the better—until they meet identical twins Zeb and Zeke. Now that love is in the air, life can't really get any better… or can it?

RN First Assistant Chris Bottoms enjoys being a bottom. Though abused by his stepfather as a boy and conditioned to enjoy sex only one particular way, he's come to make the most of his life. And he enjoys bottoming—to the hilt—whenever and wherever he can.

As if colorectal cancer wasn't enough of a trial, the subsequent botched surgery robs him of normal bodily functions—no more prostate massage for Chris. In the middle of his medical drama, his best friend, Mickey O'Donovan, accepts a promotion that brings him to live in Jacksonville. Roommates in college, they've remained friends and occasional fuck buddies ever since. Chris's crisis brings their relationship to a new level, though, and long-suppressed feelings are revealed.

After the death of their mother, Chris Bottoms adopted his little brother, Ted, and Chris and his partner, Mickey O'Donovan, settle down to raise him. Through paperwork left by his mother, Chris learns his brother has a deeply troubled past.

During a Thanksgiving visit with Chris and Ted's maternal grandparents, they find out Chris's grandfather allowed his friends to abuse Ted, so Chris severs all ties with that side of his family.

Through his job at a hospital, Chris hears of a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic who has developed an ileostomy reversal technique that has proven successful in cases like his. When Chris enters the clinic for preliminary testing, he learns he is a good candidate for the procedure and schedules the first of two surgeries for the beginning of January. A visit from estranged relatives while he's in the hospital leaves him wondering how many secrets one family can have.

Chris Bottoms is glad to be home from undergoing the first of two surgeries that will free him from the ostomy bag he's been wearing for more than a year. He's anxious about the upcoming second surgery, but life is keeping him on his toes.

The bank hierarchy is clearly grooming Chris's partner, Mickey O'Donovan, vice president of a mega-bank, for a promotion. To make matters worse, Chris's little brother's abusers are still out there, and that makes Chris angry.

Chris's second and final surgery can't come soon enough. Both men are looking forward its most important side-effect—Chris will once again be able to enjoy prostate massage—but not until three months after the surgery.

Fold, Do Not Starch (an Avondale Story featuring George and Mike)Sexual content = 0

Captain George Martin and his partner Mike Foster face a new challenge when an employee of one of Mike's clients tells them some troubling things about his employer. The subsequent investigation eventually uncovers a very large money-laundering scheme.

Meanwhile, while George is preparing for a reorganization in the Sheriff's office that will result in a promotion, his past reaches out to touch him.

This book received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards

Adam Yancey is about to graduate from college, with a degree in music at the age of eighteen. He's highly intelligent, totally goal-oriented, and anxious to begin working on a Master's and then a Doctoral degree, so he can pursue a career as a concert organist. But what he really dreams of is having a loving relationship with another man—a relationship like his father and his father's partner have. Unfortunately, Adam has a secret. One he feels certain will prevent him from ever having such a relationship.

Buzz Patterson is a jock and a track star, and all he wants out of life is to get laid—as often as possible. Then one day, his buddies goad him into betting that he can find out if Adam's long fingers fulfill the old saying about long fingers being an indication of length elsewhere.

Buzz has all summer to win the bet, and he begins to actively pursue Adam. Will he win the bet? Or will he wind up getting more than he bargained for?

All Fall Down (an Avondale Story featuring George and Mike)Sexual content = 0

Happy birthday to you… now die. Someone is on a murder spree and it's up to Chief George Martin's team to find out who. The murders, which have taken place on the victims' birthdays, have occurred in not just Jacksonville, but also Orlando, and as far away as Asheville. Even when the team finds them, the clues don't seem to lead anywhere, especially when everyone seems to have an alibi. Eleven people have died, and the race is on to catch the killer before he strikes again.

Trial (Appearances, Vol 1 - a Buckhead Tale)Sexual content = 0

Attorney Charles Barnett thought it was all over for him and his heart. In the three years since his partner died, he hasn't felt so much as a spark of attraction to another man. That suddenly changes when Charles is assigned a new case and meets his new client. Recent widower Philip d'Autremont has been traveling in all the same circles as Charles, but somehow they've never managed to meet. Now that they have, both men find themselves falling hard and fast.

But there's more than one hurdle to Charles and Philip beginning a love affair, much less maintaining it: Philip is on trial for murder, a politically ambitious and homophobic district attorney is determined to convict him, and Charles is responsible for Philip's defense.

Tribulation (Appearances, Vol 2 - a Buckhead Tale)Sexual content = 0

Two weeks after Philip d'Autremont is acquitted of his wife's murder, it's time for him and his partner and lawyer, Charles Barnett, to start building their life together. But it turns out that not everyone in Atlanta is as ready to leave the trial in the past as Charles and Philip, and a surprise attack leaves Charles in the hospital and Philip's arm in a sling.

With thoughts of their own mortality fresh in their minds, Charles and Philip make a decision that will change their lives forever. Future plans and home renovations take their minds off the attacks, but the danger isn't over yet: the people behind the attacks are still at large, and they weren't acting alone.

Triumph (Appearances, Vol 3 - a Buckhead Tale)Sexual content = 0

Charles and Philip Barnett have settled down to raise their children, but their domesticity is disrupted when Philip's nephew Steve is delivered to their doorstep early one morning after being beaten senseless by his homophobic father.

Scourge (The Ivory Solution, Vol 1 - From the Chronicles of Old Town)Sexual content = 0

When two young men set up an amateur sting to expose a pastor's pedophilia, they gather plenty of evidence not just of the pastor's predilections but of something even more sinister. Out of their depth, they call in FBI experts to investigate.

Meanwhile, Clint Buchalla, investigative reporter for the Washington Ledger, is sent to Atlanta to interview a man about his top-secret study. Clint is so angry at his editor for cutting his vacation short that he gets drunk and winds up in bed with the man he was supposed to interview, Dr. Rodney Poucher. But it's exuberant grad student Lucien Cormier, Rod's houseboy with benefits, who really captures Clint's attention… when he isn't busy investigating the sharp drop in birth rates in metropolitan Black and Hispanic communities.

Rodney's findings lead him, Clint, and Lucien to a meeting with the deputy director of operations of the FBI. But they only have so much time to figure out what's going on and arrest those involved—and for Clint and Lucien to work out whether the spark between them can span the distance between Atlanta and DC.

Cleanse (The Ivory Solution, Vol 2 - From the Chronicles of Old Town)Sexual content = 0

An arrest in Florida leads to the exposure of another plot by supremacists, and the FBI invites award-winning investigative reporter Clint Buchalla to interview as many suspects as are willing to talk. It's not his first time working on a controversial article for his newspaper, the Washington Ledger.

At their home together, Clint and his lover, Lucien Cormier, meet their new neighbors: a divorced woman and her two sons. One of the sons seems terribly troubled, and the woman's situation prompts Clint to search public records for information. Ultimately, he finds a trail that leads him to another pedophile priest—and thus a series of articles exposing him and the church's complicity in covering up his crimes.

Purify (The Ivory Solution, Vol 3 - From the Chronicles of Old Town)Sexual content = 0

Reporter Clint Buchalla has been tasked by his editor with delving into the activities of a sitting Senator, who is rumored to have been caught in bed at various times with a dead girl and a live boy. Clint begins what he suspects will be a months' long investigation. Instead, things quickly come to a head, and he and his partner, Lucien, find themselves in mortal danger.

The search for the rent boy leads to dinner with an older couple, one of whom worked as a rent boy in DC for twenty years, until he was paid two million dollars by the Senator's aide and ordered to disappear. The rent boy wants something in return for his testimony, though. He wants Clint to help him get his memoirs published.

Grand TourSexual content = 1

William and Henry are cousins, sons of identical twin brothers, and members of two well known Boston Brahmin families. They've roomed together through prep school, Harvard, and Harvard Law, and dated some of Boston's most eligible young women. Instead of taking a grand tour of Europe, they opt to go backpacking around the US, and are taken prisoner and sexually assaulted in a small southern city. The assaults make them realize how they've always felt about each other, but first, they have to escape.

After their escape they plan and execute an elaborate trap and ultimately catch their attackers red handed. After their attackers are tried and convicted, they settle down to practice law together on Beacon Hill.

The Path to Forever (Forever Vol 1)Sexual content = 0

Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die? Could you handle loving someone, knowing you would live forever... without them? These are questions newly minted Doctor Marco Sartori d'Argenzio must face when he and his partner Danilo Rosati celebrate Marco's completed residency and Danilo's most recent PhD with a vacation at Marco's father's home in the Italian Alps. There Marco learns about his family's legacy: his father is more than two thousand years old, and he can expect to live just as long.

Marco inherits his uncle's title amidst adventure and danger, but it breaks his heart to realize that he'll live only to see the man he's loved for a decade grow old and die. However, there is hope: Danilo is studying the unique DNA of Marco's family in hopes of discovering the secret—because Danilo has no intention of leaving Marco alone for what could be forever.

Prognosis: Forever (Forever, Vol 2)Sexual content = 0

Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die? Could you handle loving someone, knowing you would live forever... without them? Marco Sartori d'Argenzio and his partner Danilo Rosati have created a family and settled in Aragoni, but they still face the challenge of Marco's family's legacy: Marco may live forever, but Dani will not, unless the secret to Marco's unique DNA is found. Marco and Dani are focused on their children and the future, not expecting the past to mar their happiness. A very real threat materializes in a bomb attack and brings with it a twist of fate: the incredible possibility of the future they dream of—living together forever. But it also brings the spectre of danger to hang over the entire d'Argenzio clan, and Marco and Dani will do everything they can to protect their family.

Children of Forever (Forever, Vol 3)Sexual content = 0

Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die? Could you handle loving someone, knowing you would live forever... without them?When Marco's immortal father married an immortal woman, Marco never expected that their children would develop a supernatural ability: Serafina and Valerius can communicate telepathically. Not only that, but they're hearing telepathic cries for help from someone they don't know. Desperate to conceal his family's secrets, Marco decides to investigate the strength of their abilities by taking Valerius with him on a planned visit to an institution in a distant city.

Soon Valerius reveals that the voice's owner is Sergio, an adolescent who has been institutionalized for most of his life. Tests reveal a family connection to Marco's family, so they decide to have Sergio moved to a spot nearer to where they reside—but they aren't the only ones interested in Sergio's heritage.

Sold! (A Tale From the Forever Files)Sexual content = 2

On his first Peace Corps mission to Africa, Winston Martsolf is captured by gunmen working for slavers. In captivity, he is sexually nullified and sold on the auction block and eventually becomes the sex slave of an oil sheikh. After two years in captivity he still dreams of escape, wondering if his boyfriend Clancey will still want him after all he's been through.

Due to a freak storm, the sailboat on which he was being held by his owner is damaged, and Winston is eventually rescued. He is overjoyed to learn that Clancey still wants him, despite what's been done to him, and they settle down to live their lives while waiting for those responsible to be brought to justice.

Bobby and ClydeSexual content = 0

Bobby and Clyde were inseparable for the first sixteen years of their lives; until a life-altering event shook their world, and separated them.

Years went by, and Bobby wondered what had become of the boy he'd loved so completely. Then, everything changed, and the possibility of reuniting with his first and only love finally seemed it could become a reality; but danger was lurking around every corner.

After several years in Atlanta, Bobby and Carlyle (formerly Clyde) have returned to their beloved Blue Ridge to join the family law firm of Baskins and Baskins, but a few surprises await them.

Workmen building a driveway to their new home discover an abandoned moonshine still, and a tin shack containing two skeletons, so they have a forty-year-old mystery to solve. A few months later, their involvement in exposing graft in the local sheriff's office, results in an attempt on their lives.

But their greatest challenge occurs when the real Carlyle Baskins turns up, and Bobby and Carlyle wonder if their lives will ever be the same again.